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Recent Examples of moralizer
Fowler certainly was a moralizer, just maybe not in the way Jespersen meant.
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Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralizer
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His father, much older than his mom, was a preacher who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Moreover, as soon as Christianity began to spread outside his native land, Christian converts faced new situations in unexpected contexts, completely different from those of their founder, an itinerant Jewish preacher in the sparsely populated hinterlands of rural Galilee.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
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Of course, morality can still play a role in political thinking, just not the all-encompassing and determinative one that moralists ascribe to it.—
Andrew Day,
Washington Post,
28 Jan. 2026
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Arnold’s own criticism often focussed on expanding horizons and recovering unknown authors, from the moralist Joseph Joubert to the diarist Eugénie de Guérin.—
Colton Valentine,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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But the breakdown of who gets paid and who doesn’t during a government shutdown is a failure of a budget structure that goes beyond a particular administration, according to Linda Bilmes, a public finance expert and senior lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
24 Mar. 2026
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The English army’s march southward has always been part of Harold’s romantic identity, said Duncan Wright, a senior lecturer in medieval archaeology at the Newcastle University in England.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
23 Mar. 2026
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However, rather than blithely dismiss the consequences of legalization with eye-rolling contempt for the puritans, supporters should confront the adverse societal effects of cannabis — the pervasive urban stench, the traffic deaths and the pernicious effects on youth.—
Cory Franklin,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Austere antiquity is in constant conflict with more sensual, modern impulses — a tension that feels productive applied to a story of the Shakers, puritans whom time has proven too pure for this world.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
1 Sep. 2025
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From Amazon Big Spring deals our readers love and discounts on top outdoor tools and lawn equipment at The Home Depot to tech deals at Best Buy and rare spring savings on Bluetti power stations, here's what to shop right now.—
Kasey Caminiti,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Each year, readers are invited to nominate and vote for their favorite local businesses in dozens of categories.—
Community's Choice Awards,
The Providence Journal,
28 Mar. 2026
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Reconciliation today Searching for a path forward, contemporary Sámi artist and Lutheran catechist Lars Levi Sunna began to produce church art that incorporated and celebrated pre-Christian Sámi symbols – some of the very traditions that had been demonized by clergy of the past.—
Thomas A. DuBois,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
18 Nov. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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